MattNettleton

Working with the darkness. I will not tell you not to panic, I will not tell you not to be frightened and not to worry, I will not comfort you with more word...

What do you really want? All the seeking... All the attempts to fix yourself... All the attempts to please others... All the running away... All the healing,...

Love and Wholeness Underneath all the waves, the conditioned patterns of mind, the turbulent feelings of anxiety and pain and trauma exists a pool of infinit...

Radical Self Honesty. So often we are deceiving ourselves. We fool ourselves to the point that we believe our own lies, we believe ourselves to be somewhere w...

Our Aversion to Pain. We are all hooked up to seek pleasure and avoid pain. We do this to such an extent that we cause all kinds of problems for ourselves an...

We have all heard the saying: "What you resist, persists." On some level we all know this to be true. But yet, just knowing this doesn't seem to help all tha...

Trauma is an adaptation, not a disorder. When we experience a conditioned reactive pattern, in other words a trauma trigger if we are present and sensitive e...

After working with people one on one almost daily for the last number of years, and reflecting over my life and watching myself throughout the day it has bec...

Begin Exactly Where You Are. This moment, right now. Thats where you are, so thats what you work with, thats where you begin. Trust this moment, it holds the...

"Why Cant I Relax?" Our bodies crave surrender, they crave to just "Be", but as we relax deeply into now the first thing we meet is resistance. "What will ha...

The Misperception About Who You Are. When we go through life we gather experiences, some nice, and some not so nice. Some, lovely, and some traumatic. These ...

Meeting ourselves. When we meet an experience that we don't like, that we can't control, or that triggers past conditioning in us we can feel our body's tens...

What Drives You? Ponder this question, what is orienting your life? What is the fundamental driver of your words, behaviours and actions? We can apply this q...

Addiction - The Dark Carousel Of Humanity. After a talk I gave today, my final one for the year I have been reflecting on the current urgency for all of huma...

Getting out of the way. So often, if not always we are standing as an opposing force to experience, experiences of sadness, of rage, of depression, of circum...

Protection Vs Connection. We are literally hardwired to seek deeper connection to life, we are hardwired to belong, to love, and to share. Our inherent natur...

Painful Emotions and Experiences as Teachers. Our greatest teachers are often the experiences we don't want. Whether it be the death of a loved one, a trauma...

Trauma As the Cause of Addiction. As I heard recently Gabor Mate MD state in a talk on the collective trauma summit, he is getting paid to state the obvious....

Why can't I sit still? Why do we find it so difficult to just be still. Its as if the fight flight freeze response gets activated as soon as we completely "s...

Primal/Survival Rage. Hidden within the depths of the belly, is our primal rage. Throughout our lives we have been conditioned to shut down our animalistic n...